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Parent, spouse, Australian, cyclist, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Bayesian ML, Long Covid, photos of dog, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb
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While it is important to teach this directly, I have also have been working on a VS Code extension that alerts authors when their code violates user-defined rules. I've been working on a list of latex rules, including proper punctuation in display equations!
github.com/pwintz/dryer...
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I promise that after the NeurIPS deadline I'll get my posting volume back under control
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I'm so sorry!
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Given pretty much all of Labour's other positions, it's hard for me to see their actions (and inaction) on trans rights as anything other than deliberate pandering to Reform voters
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Hi Nick—I understand your arguments, but I stand by my post. Labour are clearly and deeply implicated in the bathroom bans currently being enacted www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/12/p...
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Firstly, reducing women to their biology has rarely worked out well for any women, cis or trans. Secondly: which biology? Hormonal? Many trans women are indistinguishable from cis women. Phenotype? Many trans women are indistinguishable from cis women. Chromosomes? Many cis women are not XX.
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I don't see how you can say "trans women threaten women's sport" without saying "trans women are not women"
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Isn't the whole point of sport to identify and celebrate people who have an advantage? Shouldn't we be celebrating successful trans athletes?
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I really want to understand this quote! Is Chesterton's use of "killed" intended to mean "can be avoided in practice, leading to many upsides?"
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Yes that's right
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Nb: I haven't eaten at high table since 2020 as we're in a pandemic
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Will report back after I try to get used to oat milk (my other lifelong foodstuff love is oats, so there's a good chance oat milk will work out for me)
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I've always drunk milk with every meal, request and get a pitcher of milk to myself whenever I eat at High Table (I'm lifelong teetotal), and regularly used to drink 2L of milk per night of partying in my twenties
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True, but unmasked frontline healthcare workers are definitely at higher risk
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Thank you! That means a lot. And right back at you!
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My unevidenced theory is that everyone is born with a lifetime budget of dairy and I just flagrantly squandered mine too young
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I (used to) fry the oats in butter before cooking, but, yes rubbing it in would probably work well too :)
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Rub it in, why don't you
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The good news is that I had dairy-free porridge this morning with olive oil, eggs and an avocado and it was delicious